The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Paris has population OF z,ouO,OVo
rats, and still our girls say it is lovely
there.-Albany argus.
No wonder the world turns upon
its own axis, when you reflect upon the
quantity of oil there is lubricating it.
Dayton Journal.
AT sale in Paris the other day
splendid dish of the rare old Rouen
ware fetched f304. 1t was twenty
inches i'm diameter, and was beautifully
painted with cupids and flowers.
The Augusta (Me.) Journal says
there is a man i'm that city who points
with pride to willow tree two feet in
diameter at the butt and on one of the
principal streets. which his father stuck
i'm the ground after using it as a rod
over his back.
"A man in a car on MAINE railroad
thought that he felt bug crawling on
his neck, and grabbed for it. Then
there was scream. and the man found
himself clutching the back hair of Il
woman who had been sitting behind
Joseph X. Shultz. well-known
farmer of Lancaster County. Penn,
has Just completed sales of his tobacco
crop. showing total yield of three
hundred and sixty dollars per acre for
last year. The census makes LancaS-
ter the richest agricultural county in
the Chicago Tribune.
The Jewels recently made in Ger
many for the Empress of Japan are
! said to consist of a diadem, necklace
and several bracelets. Her diadem
contains six hundred diamonds, nine
of which are very large. The central
stone weighs nine carats and is valued
at twenty-five thousand francs.
"A Judge at North Yakima. w. T.,
in a recent case in which the right of a
foreign-born woman to sit as a juror
was questioned. held that il the hus-
band of the woman was a citizen of
this country, the woman acquired the
same status as that of her husband.
and was, therefore, qualified to vote
and sit as juror.
In his attempts to trace the wild
origin of our cultivated plants, Mons.
Alphonse de Candolle, the well-known
botanist, suggests that wheat, beans,
Indian corn and some kinds of peas
can no longer be found anywhere ex-
cept under cultivation. Their seeds
are easily destroyed and these plants
in the wild state have disappeared in
consequence of the attacks of the vari-
Gus enemies of plant-life.-M T.
Ledger.
Old Mr. Rice and young Mr.. Farm
er, of Wilson, n. c., quarreied, and "a
the old man advanced threateningly
the young man pulled a pistol. They
were separated without harm being
done; but few minutes afterward Mr..
: Rice said to a friend: Il think it il
cowardly in young man like that to
draw pistol on an old man like me.
and / tell You | am mad about it. "
With these words the old man gasped
and then fell dead.--N. y. Sun.
Miss Parloa is a plucky woman.
At one of her cooking classes. lately,
something slipped and boiling water
ran over her hands. The pupils cried
out; the lecturer did not change a
muscle. She sprinkled the burns with
soda. bandaged them with her hand
kerchief and went on with the lesson,
her hands swelling into puffy balls of
pain before her hearers eyes, but not
distracting her from her lecture, or
causing moments stoppage in her
running fire of jokes.
The wisdom of careful boiler in
spection was recently demonstrated
very strikingly at Chicago. The boil
ers Of three large propellers, all belong
ing to one line engaged in the lake SER
vice, were tested by the Government
officials. with the result that only one of
the three was found in good condition.
The boiler of one gave way at 10
pounds and that of the other at 120
pounds pressure. The former was
built i'm 1878 of 17-32-iron, and the lat
ter i'm 1880 of 9-16-inch iron.-BoSton
Budget.
"A brick of ashes and cinders is now
being manufactured in San Francisco.
Cal. The Examiner says: The result
is brick of unusual solidity. hand
some in appearance, of most durable
character. and made entirely without
burning or baking. All manner of ex-
periments have been tried with the
bricks in the way of subjeeting them
alternately to intense cold and heat.
but without any injurious effect. The
best quality have even been boiled for
hours without cracking or showing any
signs of dissolving."
"A clergyman, dying, left widow
and two daughters, One of the daugh-
tiers was an invalid. and the other I'M
4 g. l. e. AZ